Elemental is an open source project and contributions are always welcome.
This page contains information for prospective Elemental
developers, including an overview of the organization of the current
code base, how to write code and documentation, and how to use the
tools like Git.

Contributions are actively encouraged. Your first few contributions should
ideally take the form of git-formatted changesets. After submitting several
high-quality changesets, you may receive direct commit access to the
GitHub repositories.

At this point in time, Elemental is led in a manner which closely resembles
that of Python or the Linux kernel: community and developer feedback and
changesets are actively encouraged, but decisions are ultimately decided by
the main developer of the project (in this case,
Jack Poulson).
This role is traditionally referred to as the Benevolent Dictator.
As more developers begin to more frequently contribute high-quality changesets
to the library, Elemental will move towards a more distributed decision-making
structure.

The most straight-forward way to contribute is to
fork Elemental on GitHub, commit
your proposed changes, and then to submit a pull request. If the changeset
involves a significant change to the library that warrants discussion, then
it would be best to also send a message to dev@libelemental.org.